Improvement in cotton-presses



G. MILLORN.

COTTON PRESS.

Patented June 5, 1860.

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GEORGE MILLIBAN, OEBYHALIA, MISSISSIPPI.

IMPROVEMENT IN COTT'ON-PRE SSES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 28.592, dated June 5,1860.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE MILLIRAN, of Byhalia, in the county ofMarhall and State of Mississippi, have invented a new and Improved Pressfor Pressing Cotton, Hay, and other Similar Materials; and I do herebydeclare that the following is afull and exact description thereof,reference being bad to the accompanying drawings, making .part of thisspecification- Figure 1 being a central longitudinal vertical section ofthe press; Fig. 2, a horizontal section thereof in the plane indicatedby the line :0 as, Fig. l.

Likeletters designate corresponding parts in both figures.

In a suitable frame, A, is located the balebox B, in which slides thefollower C, arranged and actuated as follows: The upper end of aconnecting toggle-lever, D, is pivoted to the follower, restingin aspace, a, therein, of sufficient size to give said lever the necessaryplay as the follower is raised and lowered, and the lower end of thelever is pivoted to a horizontal carriage or beam, E, of suitable lengthfor the purpose designed, and which travels between guide-rollers F Fand G G, turning on axlesb b b b, substantially as represented. Theupper guide-rollers, F F, and lower gnide-rollers, G G, bear,respectively, against the upper and lower surfaces of the carriage orbeam, and they have rims or flanges c c to guide the carriage or beamlaterally as it moves forward and backward. The carriage or beam E, bysliding closely between the gnide-rollers F F and G G and being guidedstraight forward between the rims c a of said guide-rollers, gives greatsteadiness to the follower in pressing, and but little friction isproduced. The carriage or beam is actuated as follows:' To its front endis secured a rope or chain, 1, as represented at 9, extending thenceforward to a shaft or Windlass, K. on

which it winds, thereby drawing the carriage or beam forward, and a ropeor chain, H, is secured in a suitable position, as at h, to the carriageor beam inside of the upper rear roller, F, back around which it passes,and extends thence forward to the Windlass, on which it winds in thedirection opposite that of the ropeor chain I, thereby drawing thecarriage or beam back. Thus as one rope or chain winds on the Windlassthe other unwinds, thereby producing a reciprocating motion of thecarriage or beam, so that aftera bale is pressed by reversing the motionof the windlass the follower is lowered in the bale-box. The Windlass Kis properly located in such a position that the rope or chain I draws ina line centrally parallel with the motion of the carriage or beam E. TheWindlass may be turned by any convenient means, that represented in thedrawings being a lever, 4 buta sweep to attach horses to is the ordinarymeans of turning.

Since the power that actuates the follower comes principally from oneside of the press, (the right-hand side in the drawings,) the side (1 ofthe follower opposite the power sustains the greater portion of thefriction of the follower as thesame moves in the bale-box. To obviatethis friction to a great extent I insert a friction roller orrollcrs,j', turning on apivot or pivots in that side of the follower andrunning on the side of the bale-box, substantially as represented inFig. 1. By this arrangement, in connection with the carriage or beam E,a steady and easy motion of the followeris produced and vacillationavoided.

I am aware that various modes and devices for actuating the following bya toggle-lever have before been employed, but none of them, so far asIamacquainted,resembl e the arrange ment above described. Therefore Vhat Iclaim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The arrangement and combination of the car: riage or beam E,toggle-lever I), and follower 0, provided with the friction roller orrollers f, substantially in the manner and for the purposes hereinspecified.

In witness that the above is a true specification of my improved pressfor pressing. cotton, hay, and other similar materials I hereunto set myhand this 20th day of February, 1860.

his GEORGE MILLIRAN.

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Witnesses:

WM. H. G. HARRIS, J. D. HARRIS.

